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1.002: Why haven't the KLF released a record for ages?

The KLF 'retired from the music industry' on the 5th of May 1992, deleted their entire back catalogue, and burned all remaining merchandise to prove that this action was serious and not a stunt to sell more records. See 1.003 for why they retired. In an ad taken out in the UK music press they stated that for 'the foreseeable future there will be no further record releases from ... any past, present & future name attached to our activities'. Quite how long the foreseeable future represents depends on your own optimism/pessimism. They also said that 'if we meet further along be prepared...our disguise may be complete'.

The KLF They did return to public attention as The K Foundation, in a series of strange press ad's in summer 1993 (see 4.005), but as the typeset, the poetic language and pyramid logo were familiar, and there was an excess of letter K's the disguise was certainly not complete. They have commercially released one single since then, the K Foundation's interstellar anthem 'K Sera Sera (War Is Over If You Want It), which is 'Available Nowhere...No Formats' until world peace has been established, although it has been played at major public gatherings including music festivals, and a limited release was arranged in Israel/Palestine to honour the limited peace that the signing of the Rabin/Arafat deal represented. Copies of this single now change hands for very large sums of money. See 2.013 for what this record sounds like. They have recently moved into the art world (see 4.005 and 4.006) and the publishing world (see 4.010 and 4.011).

In September 1995 they recorded a track called "The Magnificent" for the HELP album under the name One World Orchestra (see 1.011). They agreed to make this track, (for free), as it was for a non-profit-making charity record, and Bill considered it worth doing. In an interview (June 96) Jimmy makes out he is taking a bit of a rest from the music business and art world, but there have been subsequent reports of a Cauty solo project under the name "Advanced Acoustic Armaments" or "AAA". See 4.012 for more. Bill has branched out as an author, co-writing 'Bad Wisdom' with Mark Manning (see 4.010), and Jimmy's last public project has been a contribution of artwork to the Looking Glass art experiment (see http://www.redfig.com). He also took part in the A30 bypass protests in Devon (see 4.012).
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